The Portland daily press., 1887-08-17
Probable and Possible Naval Re-
views.


The Galena, Yantic, Richmond, Ossipee.
Alliance and the new despatch boat Dolphin
are already at Bar Harbor, and there is a
prospect that the Atlanta may join them in
time for grand review when Secretary
Whitney arrives. Such review, provided
all is propitious for its occurrence. will be a
very interesting spectacle. 1t will not be
like the review before the Queen of England
at Portsmouth last July, which was the
greatest naval spectacle the world has ever
known But it will be more impressive than
any similar spectacle seen on the coast Of
Maine for many years. The one or two new
war ships will be most interesting as they
are the beginnings Of new navy Most of
the people wha at Bar Harbor look upon the
Richmond, Ossipee, Yantic, Galena and ALI
ance are taking their final view of the re-
mains Of the old navy; of the new navy of
the future they are seeing in the Dolphin.
and will see in the Atlanta il she is present.
the first examples 1t will be several years,
probably when the sprighty Secretary
Whitney shall have been consigned to the
swift oblivion that oyertakes most ex-Seare-
taries who have had no title to prominence
but that given by the office, before at Bar
Harbor there will be possible grand review
of the new war vessels. But Congress has
made all the provisions, and we are to have
the new vessels; and they will make a brave
and formidable show whenever it shall be
possible to review them together There
will be the Dolphin, first and smallest, of
LASS tons displacement and fifteen knots
speed; the Boston and Atlanta, of 5000 tons
and Of ahout CiNtaan Ero 10
go, of 440O tons and speed of fifteen and a
half knots; three gunboats, not yet named,
of 100 tons displacement and an estimated
speed of sixteen knots; another gunboat of
$40 tons and thirteen knots speed; the great
cruiser Charleston, of 3, ,730 tons displacement
and the high speed of eighteen knots; the
Newark, larger still, of 4,OS4 tons displace-
ment and an equal speed the Baltimore, yet
larger, with displacement of 4,413 tons and
expected to have the great speed of nineteen
knots an hour; two other large cruisers, not
yet named, but to have a displacement of
4,oS4 tons each and a maximum speed of
nineteen knots; the double turretted iron
monitors Miantonomah, Amphitrite. Monad-
mock and Terror, of 1887 tons displacement
each; the huge double turreted Puritan, of
O,oVVbouo ulopldCtInenJ, with twelve inches
of steel armor on her sides and sixteen on her
turrets; a new armored cruiser, Of displace-
ment equal to the Puritans and speed far
greater, equalling probable sixteen or seven
teen knots; a new armored line of battle
ship, also of 5000 tons displacement and six
teen or seventeen knots speed pneumatic
dynamite cruiser, carrying three novel en-
gines ofdestruction, and capable of steaming
twenty knots an hour; frst-class torpedo
boat intended to make the extraordinarily
quick time of twenty-five knots an hour;
the Stiletto. already famed for her wonder
full speed, of which Congress has authorized
the purchase. In all there are twenty-three
modern war vessels which Congress has
made provision for and most of which are al
ready completed, in process of construction
or under contract. All of them, except the
torpedo boats, will carry steel-rifed, breech
loading guns of great power. The great line
OF battle ship will carry twelye-inch guns.
and from this size the ordnance will be grad
ed down to six-inch guns. With good Iuck